October 2017

By Tina Wu
Content warning: sexual harassment
I was scrolling through my emails on the train when I received an Airdrop request on my phone. It was a pixelated image of Shrek, a finger in his mouth, a suggestive look in his eyes. I quickly declined it

By Shivika Gupta
I love cuddling doggos as much as the next person, but it’s not a cure-all when it comes to mental health. For some students, an interaction with cute and fluffy puppers might be the highlight of their week, but others may need more

By Carrie Lee
What I’m struggling with most of all
Is finding balance
Between truth and kindness
My brother is making an art gallery on the walls
Carving his sixteen year old emotions into sculptures
His hands are his tools
Touching,
Feeling
The plaster,
Making it his own.
My mother sighed
It’s just a phase
She wanted

By Harriet Sim
Dear Death,
How can I satisfy you?
Do I not allow you hours of nightly torment?
Do I not lay my docile body out each night for you to infest and congest my fragile conscience?
You send surges of constraint around my bruised chest when you

By Jeremy Sun
They say home is where the heart is.
My mother, my sister and I are visiting China. My father had visited the year before, and when he’d returned, he’d shown me all the photos he took, comparing them to photos he’d taken decades

By Lydia Morgan
“So what actually is up with them?” my classmate Sophie wondered aloud, as we packed away our laptops at the end of class. “They’re basically trying to take over the world, hey?” The subject of this musing (and our conversation) was the great